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Make happy   /meɪk hˈæpi/   Listen
Make happy

verb
1.
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.  Synonyms: jollify, make merry, make whoopie, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up.  "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"






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"Make happy" Quotes from Famous Books



... perfect whole, simple, complete. The round pool, smooth, level with the ground, unadorned, gives its note. The colors are warm, the massive pillars softly smooth. The trees press close to the walls, the shrubbery is dense. Birds make happy sounds among the branches. Water falls from the fountains in the alcoves, not with a roar, but with something more than a woodland murmur. These fountains touch one of the purest notes in nature. In cool, high, bare-walled alcoves the water falls in sheets from terrace to terrace, at last into ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... principality in Germany, grandeeship in Spain, is called peerage in England and France. There being a fair show of reason for considering the world a wretched place enough, heaven felt where the burden was most galling, and to prove that it knew how to make happy people, created lords for the satisfaction of philosophers. This acts as a set-off, and gets heaven out of the scrape, affording it a decent escape from a false position. The great are great. A peer, speaking of ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... your own sake; for Sir Harry's sake; make happy; and be happy. Are there not, dear madam, unhappinesses enow in life, that we must ...
— The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) • Samuel Richardson



Words linked to "Make happy" :   fete, roister, jollify, riot, carouse, celebrate



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